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etrayalogs2025-09-02 07:21 pm
tinflower) wrote in etrayalogs2025-09-02 07:21 pm
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WHO: gorgug thistlespring & you!
WHEN: late last month and first half of this month!
WHERE: around etraya, and even outside it!
WHAT: bots, music, available for plotting
NOTES\WARNINGS:
1; outside the bubble
WHEN: late last month and first half of this month!
WHERE: around etraya, and even outside it!
WHAT: bots, music, available for plotting
NOTES\WARNINGS:
1; outside the bubble
[ There aren't many reasons to lurk around the border between Etraya and outside. There isn't a lot to see, except for the very odd tree, a large rock here and there, and also a green guy from time to time wearing a tin can on his head.2; sneaky bot training
--wait now.
It's not really a tin can, but it might as well be. Close to a welders' mask, a particular half-orc takes Aurora-approved trips outside the barrier that keeps everyone safe, to do maintenance on those very innocuous rocks spaced out around different parts outside. Sometimes he has them flipped over, cross-legged and inspecting whatever the interior is inside; or maybe, he's even setting up a new one, and the 'boulder' can be seen standing on otherwise hidden legs, scuttling like a lobster, while Gorgug watches. If it has a head, it can't be seen.
And Gorgug, he doesn't know if he's being seen from the inside. But then, it's pretty weird to be outside, and maybe he will catch if he's being watched.
You know, unless someone wants to call out the weird, 6'7" lanky figure just hanging out around outside. ]
[ Other times, Gorgug is dealing with his projects inside Etraya. One such project is training his sneaky chameleon by going to different parts of Etraya with the 1 foot bot.3; music/dance studio
Most of the time, it's invisible, and it doesn't thrum with motor noise like an electronic creation. But perhaps your character has a sense for magic or unseen beings, or just feels like something is off in that cereal aisle or the Kwik Trip, or they heard something scuttling under their table inside the many cafes.
Or it could even be that you were moving through Nova City, filled as it is with cats, but there seems to be some other presence... a little scurrying thing, usually invisible, but sometimes coming out of invisibility to let it recharge that setting. But coming out at the wrong time, and a glint of something small but animal-shaped catches your attention. Thinking it's being sneaky behind a wall or trash can, but is it? ]
[ Not too far from the hospital is a large boat--a building in the shape of a boat, to be exact, and titled 'the MAXIMUM' on the map on the earpiece. It's probably a weird enough sight whether you know what it is or not, worth checking out, or maybe even making use of its facilities inside: dance rooms on the first floor, an unmanned bar, and music rooms on the second.4; wildcard
And up on the second floor, in the open practice room, is sometimes Gorgug. Some days, he's practising on the drums; others, he's going through the music library available from consoles in the wall, which can be found in a few of the different rooms to play music.
He likes his rock, he likes his emo, and he lets the music play for the most part, a notepad on his knee as he lets it play. Head bopping, his expression inquisitive, thoughtful. Truly, listening to music is serious.
The problem is, the music is set to shuffle at random, and when Gorgug doesn't close the door to the room properly, sometimes the choices sure are choices.
(In Gorgug's defence, he is too confused to change the tracks immediately. What is this.) ]
[ Want to investigate the set of buildings surrounded by a large, golden fence? There might be the sound of quacking coming from the inside, or the sight through the left open gate of Gorgug chasing after a robotic duck in a vest and propeller hat (a sad sight, as he keeps going "Noooo, stop running, come onnn", and doesn't actually speed up to catch it; or he can be found at the junkyard, making a trip out with his blue van to check for any new and useful junk.
Feel free to message me privately if you would like to make plans! ]
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I can see that. [ Fabian instead says. So calmly. If anything, he mostly just sounds kind of exasperated, especially compared to the way Gorgug is just crying at that duck as he's chasing it. ]
So why don't you just let it run around? That thing is not the boss of you!
[ Gorgug, stop letting yourself get bullied by a duck! ]
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That might be a good idea, but for the second Gorgug stop, he looks more exasperated than Fabian sounds; turning his head from Fabian to the duck, which continues to run while flapping its metallic wings in glorious winner fashion.
Gorgug's hands are held in a way like he wants to start waving them restlessly, in indignation. This plan has lasted for two or three seconds max. ]
Get the Hangman! Tell it to get the duck!
[ Broooo!!!! ]
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But Fabian has changed over the years. Maybe he hasn't gotten less exasperated, but he has learned a thing or two about friendship. (Well, and a little bit more with Gorgug, but even if that wasn't here right now, the thing about friendship would still apply!)
And that is that sometimes you have to get involved with ridiculous things for the sake of the people you care about. Unfortunately.
So even though Fabian looks like he's being asked so much here, he still steps forward, putting two fingers into his mouth to whistle.
Very soon after - it can't be more than a few seconds, honestly - there's already the roaring of a familiar fiery engine, and the motor emerges from the manor, driving down the steps and over towards the duck, roaring with a call of: ]
Master, I will incinerate this fiend that dares to enter your lands!
[ D-Did it hear that Gorgug call all the way from inside?! Though it seems to take its task perhaps a little bit too seriously..
Do you want burnt robot duck, Gorgug? Do you? ]
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[ Has Gorgug sound as distressed as he does right now? Because he's not chasing after the duck anymore, he's chasing after the Hangman and its desire to turn his duck into scrap metal. He's actually putting more effort into it, too, whereas his running before had been a pitiful thing -- but now that there's potential danger involved (that he wanted involved...), he's hauling true ass to catch up.
With a motorcycle from Hell.
The duck is continuing to quack and run, obliviously, flapping its metal wings now and then for a little hop. The noise of the engine coming towards it? Nonsense. It is free of thought, running on its own vibes.
This is truly a scene. ]
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Well, if you count that skull on the front of the bike as its eyes, anyway. ]
If I am not permitted to incinerate it, then what should I do with this terrible threat?
[ It's at that point that Fabian finally properly joins the party too - having walked over and now standing close enough to involve himself with it all. ]
Gorgug. [ He's reaching up.
Putting a hand on your shoulder.
Bro. ]
Why don't you tell the Hangman what you want, huh?
[ While you're having a day. ]